Performance of the MADEIRA PET probe prototype

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 3111-3115

  Studen, Andrej ^a   Burdette, Don ^c   Chesi, Enrico ^c   Cindro, Vladimir ^a   Clinthorne, Neal H ^d   Cochran, Eric ^c   Grošičar, Borut ^a   Honscheid, Klaus ^c   Kagan, Harris ^c   Lacasta, Carlos ^e   Llosá, Gabriela ^e   Linhart, Vladimir ^e   Mikuž, Marko ^a,b   Stankova, Vera ^e   Weilhammer, Peter ^c   Žontar, Dejan ^a  

^a JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^e INSTITUTO DE FÍSICA CORPUSCULAR IFIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Medical imaging; PET insert; Silicon pad detectors

Indexed keywords

BUILDING BLOCKES; CRUCIAL PARAMETERS; DETECTOR MODULE; ENERGY RESOLUTIONS; EVALUATION MODULES; EVENT CLASSIFICATION; GAIN VARIATIONS; GAMMA SOURCE; HIGH RESISTIVITY SILICON; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; IMAGE IMPROVEMENT; INPUT CHANNELS; LOGIC TRIGGERS; PET INSERT; PET PROBE; POSITRON SOURCES; SENSOR GEOMETRIES; SENSOR MATERIALS; SILICON PAD DETECTORS; TIMING PERFORMANCE; TIMING REFERENCES; TIMING RESOLUTIONS;

APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COMPARATORS (OPTICAL); ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES TO APPARATUS; MEDICAL IMAGING; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; POSITRONS; PROBES; SENSORS; TIME MEASUREMENT;

SILICON DETECTORS;

EID: 77951166591     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2009.5401677     Document Type: Conference Paper

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